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Arts Division
Music Department
DMA Candidate
Graduate
Music Center
Ben Dorfan has performed with The Carmel Bach Festival, NewMusicWorks, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Santa Cruz Symphony, Monterey County Pops!, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Ariose Singers, and Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus. He has provided music direction for Jewel Theatre Company, Mountain Community Theater, Georgiana Bruce Kirby School, and others.
Ben serves on the Music Teachers’ Association of California State Board of Directors and is Santa Cruz Chamber Players' General Manager. He holds a BA in Music from Oberlin College and an MA in Music Composition from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Korean Traditional Music
- 18th- and 20th-century approaches to counterpoint
- American Minimalism (in the most broad and inclusive sense)
- Music Theory
- Music Composition
- Musicianship
- Piano
- Musicology
- Non-Western Music
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